Button



(No model.)

W. H; "WARD.

BUTTON.

No. 256,417; Patented Apr. 113882.

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INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

v I UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HfWARD, on ToPEK KANSAS.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,417, dated April 11, 1882.

' Application filed February 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all whomt't may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM HENRY WARD, of Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part of-this specification.

This invention relates to buttons having metallic fastenings or tangs for securing them to garments; and theinvention consistsin the combination of elements hereinafter-described and claimed. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the button; Fig. 2, a face view; Fig. 3, a sectional side. elevation, and Fig. at a blank from which the fastening is formed.

The button A is composed of the fastening a, formed of a strip of thin flexible metal havin g angular slots cut in one end and rolled into a cylindrical shape, the eyelet 1), within which the fastening is secured, the back 0, having acentral perforation through which the eyelet and clasp are passed and secured by spreading their inner ends, and the face 61,

which is secured to theback in the usual man-- -I am aware that a fastening formed of a 7 blank like the one shown in the drawings is commonly used in buttons of this class; but I am not aware that such a fastening has before been secured within an eyelet, so that the eyelet shall form the stem of the button in such manner. as to allow the button to rotate upon its stem.

Having thus described'my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- Y The combination, in a button, of a rotary eyelet secured within the back of the button, so as to form a stem, a fastening having its cylindrical end secured within the eyelet, and

a face having a depression fittingwithin the spread ends of the fastening and eyelet, sub stantially as shown and described WILLIAM HENRY WARD.

Witnesses:

M. WEIGHTMAN, SAML. M. GARDENHIRE. 

